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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1999
Kazuyuki Sakurai, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a system for recognizing the environment around a vehicle with an image, to provide a system and method of detecting a road area without lowering the accuracy over the entire of the road area including an upper portion of the road area. The system comprises a computer which is operated under control of a program, an image input device , and means for outputting road area data . The computer comprises means for calculating statistic for each horizontal line , means for fitting the statistic to a function , means for processing a threshold value of the road image and means for detecting the road area
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